'''THIS UTILITY MAY OR MAY NOT APPEAR IN THE CONTROL PANEL OF 9.1-RELEASE AS IT IS STILL BEING TESTED'''

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Beginning with PC-BSD® 9.1, the Control Panel contains an "Active Directory & LDAP" icon for managing connections to an Active Directory or OpenLDAP domain. If your network contains an Active Directory or OpenLDAP server, use this icon to input the settings needed to connect to your account information stored on the network. At this time, these settings can not be set during installation of PC-BSD® 9.1; this will be added as a feature of version 9.2.

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Beginning with PC-BSD® 9.1, the Control Panel contains an "Active Directory" & "LDAP" icon for managing connections to an Active Directory or OpenLDAP domain. If your network contains an Active Directory AD or OpenLDAP server, use this icon to input the settings needed to connect to your account information stored on the network. At this time, these settings can not be set during installation of PC-BSD® 9.1; this will be added as a feature of version 9.2.

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'''NOTE:''' this utility is to manage the settings of the client, not the Active Directory or OpenLDAP server itself.

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'''NOTE:''' this utility is to manage the client, not the Active Directory or OpenLDAP server itself.

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To start the application, double-click its icon in Control Panel or type '''pc-adsldap'''. Figure 8.3a shows the configuration utility with the Active Directory tab open.

To start the application, double-click its icon in Control Panel or type '''pc-adsldap'''. Figure 8.3a shows the configuration utility with the Active Directory tab open.

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Beginning with PC-BSD® 9.1, the Control Panel contains an "Active Directory & LDAP" icon for managing connections to an Active Directory or OpenLDAP domain. If your network contains an Active Directory or OpenLDAP server, use this icon to input the settings needed to connect to your account information stored on the network. At this time, these settings can not be set during installation of PC-BSD® 9.1; this will be added as a feature of version 9.2.

NOTE: this utility is to manage the settings of the client, not the Active Directory or OpenLDAP server itself.

To start the application, double-click its icon in Control Panel or type pc-adsldap. Figure 8.3a shows the configuration utility with the Active Directory tab open.

Figure 8.3a: Managing Active Directory Client Settings

If you need to connect to a network running Active Directory, check the box "Enable Active Directory". This will change the greyed-out status of the rest of the screen, allowing you to configure the following:

If you need to connect to a network which contains a configured LDAP server, check the box "Enable LDAP". This will change the greyed-out status of the rest of the screen, allowing you to configure the following:

Hostname: hostname or IP address of LDAP server. This setting is mandatory.

Base DN: top level of the LDAP directory tree to be used when searching for resources (e.g. dc=test,dc=org).